Unions believe that public school teachers should not fear losing their jobs, even if they fail at them. Nevermind that bad teachers hurt America’s children. The union movement believes they have a right to their job. There is almost nothing a worker can do that would lead his union to believe he should get fired.

Nothing, that is, except disagree with his union.

Duane Hammond, a member of International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees Union Local 33, had a job helping build a stage for an upcoming Obama rally in Los Angeles. His union fired him because he wore a sweatshirt with the name “Bush” on it.

Hammond’s son serves in the Navy aboard the aircraft carrier George H. W. Bush. A proud father, he wore a sweatshirt bearing the carrier’s image and name. That was too much for his union. They demanded he turn his sweatshirt inside-out. When he refused his union supervisor fired him from the job. If only unions were as passionate about quality education as they are about politics.

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This is just another one of many attacks supposedly pro-American unions are making on our first amendment rights (among others). I guess the first amendment can only be invoked when the position expressed by an individual fully and completely aligns with either the union's or the Bush-haters' views.

Where is the ACLU on this? Apparently ignoring first amendment rights for the average white American who supports our military is not a problem. Rule of law no longer applies, but defacto rule by a thugocracy does. Given the DOJ's racial bias, why is this surprising?

SEIU members will no longer be axed to pay for their personal baseball bats or sledge hammer/axe handles. Union management, using only their own bats, negotiated favorable terms from leading manufacturers of both bats and handles to provide these tools free. It's a great day for America!

If this isn't a law suit then this isn't America…since when is there a law on what you can or cannot wear…this man is merely proud of his son which is fighting for this country…the country president Obama seems to keep apologizing for…do they even teach the Constitution in schools any more cause it seems many were absent when this was taught…freedom of speech…or has that changed too?

My dear Scott DeWitt, can you imagine if Duane Hammond was a black man? I think the union would have burned a cross in his yard and thrown a brick through his window. It's not about white or black, it's about liberal/leftists and the rest of us. I hope and pray (clinger that I am) that Duane Hammond sues the pants off them. God bless your son Mr. Hammond, don't loose faith in America. I am a Silver Star Marine Mom and proud of it.

Well it really wasn't an opinion, nor was it free speech. The man was wearing a sweat shirt. He owned the sweat shirt because his son served on that ship. What happened was the left's searing hatred for anything decent, anything right, anything lovely, anything at all that doesn't promote their vulgar declaration of the same. It didn't become a matter of free speech until a bigot hand-wringing, bed-wetting, panty-wearing liberal was offended by it.

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